Blog #13: Life—The Book! 1st Possibility

IDEA 1: "Hitler's Designer Babies"(?)"Designing the Aryan Race"(?)"Blond hair and Blue eyes"(?)...

1. My Big Idea has to do with both Adults and Conception in that it deals with adults 'designing' babies. My article will have to do with Eugenics and its impact on history through the Nazi regime of the Third Reich and the human testing that went into attempts at 'selective breeding.' Since people knew that certain things coded for all of our physical traits, scientists tried to alter those traits in either mature subjects or in embryos inside pregnant women. Much of it was based on psuedoscience, but a lot of it was also based on mathematical probabilites that are directly connected to Mendelian genetics. Nonetheless, scientists still attempted to alter the phenotypes without changing the genotypes.

2.Nazi propaganda showing how it costs good families too much money to support people with hereditary diseases. [eugenics can fix that, and scientific experiments done on euthanized test subjects tried to cure hereditary disease and unwanted traits (like those deviating from the Aryan Race.)]

 

3. As far as I know, designing phenotypes of babies would mean altering their genotypes before development, which would mean going into a zygote's DNA and altering its genes or even inserting clips and sections of genes from other people into that baby. Thus, a person who only had Brown-eye alleles could have blue eyes, it's just a matter of the genetic engineering applied to crops today. Designer baby-making could also, on a simpler aspect, just employ Mendelian genetics and those sorts of probabilities, making it possible to accurately predict what a child will look like from his zygote and abort that zygote and invitroly fertilize another one that contains all the traits parents want afterwards.

4. A big part of Hitler's agenda (which means the Nazi agenda) was to establish the great Aryan race of Germany over the other, non-Anglo-Saxon races, specifically the Jews and the Slavs. This was racial profiling taken to the point of genocide and mass murder. Of course, their racism also heavily endorsed Eugenics, which would allow them to distinguish Aryans and create a Master Race, so that all Germans could be handsome and intelligent. Thus, eugenic testing was experimented with on people in the concentration camps. This meant that people imprisoned because of their race or illness (religious beliefs, political views, pedofilia, and homosexuality counted as illnesses) could be experimented with in the name of Eugenics. Therefore, the Holocaust not only entails the mass murder of millions upon millions, but also the cruel medical testing and abuse that occured in pursuit of Eugenics.